Nicole Ferrari

Nicole Ferrari's current research interests focus on intersections between French and Italian nineteenth-century literature and Ordinary Language Philosophy. She analyzes philosophical and ontological skepticism in the ancien régime and representations of republics in Alessandro Manzoni's I Promessi Sposi and Victor Hugo's Les Misérables. She investigates how the Enlightenment notions of the virtues, the human, and classical and modern republics shaped Italian and French authors’ visions of governance, the good, and justice in the nineteenth century. In her upcoming projects, she intends to extend this research from Europe to the Caribbean, specifically the Haitian Revolution.